Ziatech 5503 watchdog driver

2005-03-18 Thread Devon H. O'Dell
Hey, I'm busy writing a Ziatech 5503 watchdog driver for FreeBSD (and porting all the watchdog stuff to DragonFly BSD) and Plan 9. For my driver, I have no way to identify that the system has the driver, so I wanted to make it conditional on options ZT5503 existing in the kernel configur

Re: Ziatech 5503 watchdog driver

2005-03-18 Thread Warner Losh
> I'm busy writing a Ziatech 5503 watchdog driver for FreeBSD (and > porting all the watchdog stuff to DragonFly BSD) and Plan 9. For my > driver, I have no way to identify that the system has the driver, so > I wanted to make it conditional on > > options ZT5503 That

Re: Ziatech 5503 watchdog driver

2005-03-18 Thread Daniel O'Connor
On Sat, 19 Mar 2005 09:25, Warner Losh wrote: > That's not a good enough reason to make it an option, it should really > be a device. Users that want it can add it to their kernel config. > In fact, they'd have to add it either way, so why make it weird for > them. > > Put this device on the ISA b

Re: Ziatech 5503 watchdog driver

2005-03-19 Thread Devon H. O'Dell
On Fri, Mar 18, 2005 at 03:55:53PM -0700, Warner Losh wrote: > > I'm busy writing a Ziatech 5503 watchdog driver for FreeBSD (and > > porting all the watchdog stuff to DragonFly BSD) and Plan 9. For my > > driver, I have no way to identify that the system has the driver, so

Re: Ziatech 5503 watchdog driver

2005-03-19 Thread Devon H. O'Dell
On Sat, Mar 19, 2005 at 09:02:15AM +0100, Devon H. O'Dell wrote: > On Fri, Mar 18, 2005 at 03:55:53PM -0700, Warner Losh wrote: > > > I'm busy writing a Ziatech 5503 watchdog driver for FreeBSD (and > > > porting all the watchdog stuff to DragonFly BSD) and Plan 9.

Re: Ziatech 5503 watchdog driver

2005-03-19 Thread Devon H. O'Dell
On Sat, Mar 19, 2005 at 09:43:41AM +0100, Devon H. O'Dell wrote: > On Sat, Mar 19, 2005 at 09:02:15AM +0100, Devon H. O'Dell wrote: > > On Fri, Mar 18, 2005 at 03:55:53PM -0700, Warner Losh wrote: > > > > I'm busy writing a Ziatech 5503 watchdog driver for

Re: Ziatech 5503 watchdog driver

2005-03-19 Thread Daniel O'Connor
On Sat, 19 Mar 2005 19:34, Devon H. O'Dell wrote: > Assuming I cannot find anything to identify the system, can I simply > attach the driver if it is enabled in the configuration file? You use the identify routine to create an instance of the device at a certain location. There are quite a number

Re: Ziatech 5503 watchdog driver

2005-03-19 Thread M. Warner Losh
In message: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "Devon H. O'Dell " <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: : On Fri, Mar 18, 2005 at 03:55:53PM -0700, Warner Losh wrote: : > > I'm busy writing a Ziatech 5503 watchdog driver for FreeBSD (and : > > porting all the watchdo

Re: Ziatech 5503 watchdog driver

2005-03-23 Thread John Baldwin
ote: > > > > > I'm busy writing a Ziatech 5503 watchdog driver for FreeBSD (and > > > > > porting all the watchdog stuff to DragonFly BSD) and Plan 9. For my > > > > > driver, I have no way to identify that the system has the driver, > > > >

Re: Ziatech 5503 watchdog driver

2005-03-23 Thread Devon H. O'Dell
On Wed, Mar 23, 2005 at 02:24:54PM -0500, John Baldwin wrote: > On Saturday 19 March 2005 04:04 am, Devon H. O'Dell wrote: > > On Sat, Mar 19, 2005 at 09:43:41AM +0100, Devon H. O'Dell wrote: > > > > Sorry, hate replying to myself. Turns out the value here is variable. > > > > Assuming I cannot fi